Susie Lee and Katrina Hess, the founders of Siren. Siren Susie Lee and Katrina Hess, the founders of a new dating app called Siren, want to "fight the swipe."

Unlike other popular apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge, Siren doesn't encourage you to swipe through people's photos. Instead, there's a daily open-ended question that users answer, and their responses are displayed on a feed.

The idea for Siren was inspired by their frustration with other dating apps, the majority of which were created by men. Lee and Hess, who are both women of color, believe that Siren offers a different perspective on how people can meet — or, at the very least, doesn't objectify people as much.

"The swiping interaction is fun, but when you apply that to people, you're reducing people to objects. Whether it's shoes or humans, you can do the same interaction: push them away or pull them closer," Lee tells Business Insider. "We want to fight this idea that you're shopping for humans."

The app, which launched in late 2015, is only available in Seattle and New York City. With more funding, its founders eventually hope to expand nationwide.

Here's what it's like.

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Siren is available on iOS and Android. After I downloaded it, I signed up and connected it with my Facebook account.

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The next screen told me that Siren was not like most dating apps. The central idea is to answer daily questions and send people connection requests instead of swiping through photos.

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Next, I set up my profile. Siren said I could blur my photo for extra privacy, an option the founders say will promote safety on the app. I could also add a cover photo (similar to Facebook) and choose a username.

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On the same screen, it asked my location, which is used to show other users near me. I also specified my gender, with the ability to select woman, man, non-binary, or transgender.

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When I went into settings, Siren asked me what I was looking for on the app, including gender, age, and location radius.

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Every day, Siren asks a different question with other users' answers below it. The app's layout centers' personalities rather than photos (though I blurred them out for this story).

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Anyone on the app can suggest a daily question, but Siren's team picks the one users see. When I tapped the pen icon, I entered my answer and pressed send. It then added the answer to the feed.

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Through the menu, I then explored past daily questions ...

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... and other users' answers to them.

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Since it hasn't fully launched in NYC yet, there was only a handful of people who answered the daily question near me. Siren's founders say nearly five thousand people are on the app in Seattle.

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I could like their answers and ask to connect with them.

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Tapping a person's photo made their profile pop up, which resembled what you'd find on most dating apps. However, Siren only lets you upload one main photo. Since me and this user both asked to connect, we now could message each other.

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Siren doesn't offer the instant gratification of matches. And considering it hasn't fully launched where I live, there wasn't a lot of action happening on the app — but that could change.

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Right now, there's not enough people in NYC on the app, but if more New Yorkers adopted it in the future, I'd prefer it over Tinder. To me, the idea of communicating with daily interactions idea is a little closer to how people connect in real life compared to swiping through photos.